Christos Pallantzas is one of the most relevant artists from Greece. Also recognized at international level as one of the most refined examples of “Contemporary Master”. Pallantzas was born in Larissa, Greece, in 1962. He studied Painting at the Athens Academy of Fine Arts, under Dimitris Mytaras, Nikos Kessanlis and Dimosthenis Kokkinidis ,from 1982-1989. He has been awarded by the French Government with a grant of the Ecolé Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts de Paris at the atelier de la peinture of Pierre Carron, where he refined his artistic research and attended his post graduated studies. Pallanztas has studied in depth the great masters of the past and metabolized certain creative processes, but he expresses himself in total autonomy, strong in his vision of reality and his great ability to transpose his inner universe onto the canvas. Today many of his s works can be found in the Greek National Gallery, the Benaki Museum, the Florina Museum, the Kouvoutsakis Art Collection, the Frissiras Museum, the Agricultural Bank of Greece Collection, the Heracles Group of Companies Collection, and other private museums and collections in Greece and abroad. Moreover, his work was selected as representative of Greek Contemporary Art during the Olympic Games of 2004.

“The paintings of Christos have something of unattanaible. Just beautiful, executed with great skill, the more you look at them the more they bring back to mind this or that great painter of the past. But it is a moment and then we start again to meditate, to investigate, to try to see this or that reference. The truth is that Pallanztas has studied the great masters in depth, understood the lesson, he has metabolized certain creative processes, but expresses himself in total autonomy, strong in his vision of reality and his great ability to transpose his inner universe onto the canvas. And then that atmosphere in his paintings...Look at these girls curled up on a chair or lazily stretched out on a sofa and feel the heat that pervades the room! Look at the painting without emitting the slightest sigh to avoid disturbing the tangible silence that reigns in that place! Vilhelm Hammershøi came to mind in the game of cross-references, but the Danish northern contrasts the intense colors of the Mediterranean environment of Pallantzas,in a play of light and shadow, of detail and nuance. And if the visions of the artist are wonderfully colored, everything that he puts under our gaze, a body, an interior, a set of fruits, is never completely clear and defined and never gives us back a sense of complete belonging to the real world. Basically, we know that we are dreaming!”

"Great artists are never really labelable. Pallantzas less than many others. He portrays people for what they are... Better yet, as he knew them, without any pretence of objectivity, without wanting to entrust any particular message to their paintings. Indeed, without entrusting it to a particular framework, but rather, implicitly, to the totality of one's work. "To shake us the painting must not limit itself to remembering life, but having its own".

So what does Pallantzas paint? We can choose to look and not think or to think as we watch or let the image speak through our eyes. The strength of Pallantzas painting is interpreting and being able to represent, penetrating even into the territory of the unconscious because art implies life."

(Extracted from the critical text of Nunzia Perrone, for the catalog of the personal Exposition: ΕΙ ΗΣ ΩΔΕ (ΕΑΝ ΗΣΟΥΝ ΕΔΩ) at Evripides Art Gallery, February 9th 2016, Athens, Greece)

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